John Cosgriff
Chief Strategy Officer & Senior Vice President of Business Development @ UnitedHealth Group
Minneapolis, United States
John Cosgriff is a seed investor at UnitedHealth Group in Minneapolis focused on E-Commerce and Retail. John Cosgriff is Senior Vice President at UnitedHealth Group, where he focuses on strategy, acquisitions, and new business ventures. UnitedHealth Group is the world’s largest healthcare company, ranking number 14 on the Fortune 100, with 200,000 employees serving over 125 million consumers and revenues of $157 billion. John has completed over $3billion in acquisitions and created partnerships with Sesame Street, Walmart and NASCAR.Prior to UnitedHealth Group John was a management and technology consultant with Accenture, where he served Fortune 500 companies, nonprofits, and government clients in the United States and Europe. He started his career on Capitol Hill in staff roles in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate.John holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and an MPH from the University of Minnesota.
- Total investments:
- 3
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
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Industries John Cosgriff invests in
Stages John Cosgriff invests in
Countries John Cosgriff invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- E-Commerce 2 (67%)
- Retail 1 (33%)
- Consumer 1 (33%)
- Wearables 1 (33%)
- Crowdfunding 1 (33%)
Investments
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AddStructure
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AddStructure offer a white-labeled natural language understanding (NLU) platform that Retailers and Brands can use to enable conversational commerce channels. Each day, millions of consumers interact with AddStructure's products: Signal Search, Path, and Scaffold. Applications of their technology range from review summarization (distillingthousands of reviews of a product into digestible pros and cons) to a complete conversational commerce system (chatting with an intelligent digital assistant to find and purchase products). | $1.9M / Seed / Feb 27, 2017 | |
Blueprint Registry
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Blueprint Registry is an innovative ecommerce platform offering users the ability to shop or create a wish list based on the layout of their home. Blueprint Registry started at weddings to prove the concept and has since redefined the experience making gifting more convenient, personal and visual. | $1.7M / Seed / Nov 21, 2016 | |
ENSO
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1.5 billion people worldwide live with chronic pain, and the best option they have are drugs like Vicodin that have terrible side effects and make people feel sick. ENSO has developed the first opioid-free, wearable device clinically proven to solve pain better than Vicodin. It works by delivering a patented electrical stimulation treatment thatrelaxes the muscles and calms the nerves wherever it is applied, and it's all controlled via an app on your smartphone. Enso is being used to solve chronic and acute pain at over 100 medical centers in the US such as Stanford, Harvard and Cedars-Sinai. The device is covered by the VA Hospitals and workers compensation insurance plans and is expected to be covered by major commercial insurance plans by 2021. | $2.9M / Seed / Nov 03, 2015 |
Co-Investors
About UnitedHealth Group
UnitedHealth Group is a medical facility. They offer health technology, health finance, and pharmacy services. They are utilizing clinical data and intelligence to assist in the redesign, automation, and deployment of technology to streamline administrative operations and clinical decision-making. Payment systems for both consumers and providersare critical components of a healthcare system.
UnitedHealth Group Contacts
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John Cosgriff
Chief Strategy Officer & Senior Vice President of Business Development
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Larry C. Renfro
Office of the Chief Executive & Vice Chairman
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Beth Miller
Senior Director of Agency Innovations and Operations (Carrot @ OptumHealth)
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Betsy Bullock
Vice President of Business Development
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Cory B. Alexander
Strategic Advisor
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FAQ
What does John Cosgriff invest in?
John Cosgriff invests primarily in E-Commerce, Retail and Consumer startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did John Cosgriff last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for John Cosgriff closed in Feb 2017. Shizune tracks 3 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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